Though he was unhappily married to Syrie Wellcome (a liaison which began when she was still married to her first husband, Henry Wellcome), Maugham's sexual orientation appears to have been primarily homosexual, and he had several male lovers throughout his life. He was stationed in Russia shortly before the Bolshevik revolution later, he said that if he had only been sent there six months before, he might have succeeded in his aim of keeping the provisional government in power. His best-known works are Of Human Bondage (1915) and Moon and Sixpence (1919).ĭuring World War I, Maugham assisted in the ambulance corps and in intelligence work. One of the highest-paid writers of the early to mid-twentieth century, Maugham wrote fiction, memoir, travelogues, and plays. The popular and controversial novel launched Maugham's impressive writing career. He published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, in 1897 the book depicted the life and death of Liza Kent, a working-class woman. Thomas' Hospital, and apprenticed as a midwife in London's Lambeth slum area. He was raised by his aunt and uncle, and bullied by children at school. William Somerset Maugham was an English author and playwright.īorn in the British Embassy in Paris, France (legally considered British soil), Maugham endured a traumatic childhood, orphaned at ten when his mother died from tuberculosis and his father died from cancer.
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